Continuity mistake: After Drew rescues Samson from the car, when everyone stands together in the house "discussing" it, Bill Banyon walks in, and everyone's position changes, especially Samson's. Every time it cuts, either Jessie has his arms around Samson or Samson stands beside Dora, with her arms around him. (00:36:15)
Super Grover
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: In his hotel room, when Drew phones his sister and leaves a message, in the shot from behind him the box in front of him is open, but in the next shot from the front it is closed, and so on. (00:42:40)
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Drew is sitting on the couch in his hotel room, after checking in, the coffee table in front of him has a few items on it. In the following shots their positions change, and new things appear, disappear and then reappear. (00:42:20)
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: After Drew first enters his hotel room there is a close-up of the "Chuck & Cindy" gift basket. In the next shot as Drew picks it up, things are arranged differently in the basket, and even the black and red ribbons are twisted differently. (00:42:20)
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: In Drew's hotel room, in the shot of him removing his pants while he is telling Claire about the volume of Samson's voice, there is a huge potted plant beside the doorway to the bedroom. When he tells Claire, "They met in an elevator," that 6 ft tall plant is gone. Yet, in the shot of Drew lying on the bed wiggling his foot, that plant is back. (00:48:15 - 00:49:25)
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Audio problem: In Drew's hotel room, while he sleeps, when Claire and her red sandals stomp over towards the TV to try and wake Drew, she is making loud stomping noises as if she and her heels are stomping around on a bare wood floor, but there's carpet on the floor. Obviously deliberately done for the humor. (01:20:20)
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Drew shows Claire the site of Mitch's memorial, there are tables, chairs, balloons etc., set up in the ballroom from Chuck and Cindy's rehearsal. Balloons' and chairs' positions change, disappear or reappear between shots here and when Drew and Claire run back to get Mitch.
30th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: At Mercury Headquarters, when Phil speaks of "Sh*t hitting the fan globally," and reads the memo from the DCS CEO, in Drew's close-ups he has a bruise on his upper lip, which is gone in previous and following close-ups. (00:08:25)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: During Mitch's memorial, after Claire tells Drew, "I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of..." there is a shot of the audience as Ruckus plays Freebird, and Hollie and Heather have their backs to the stage as they speak to someone, while everyone else is going wild. When it cuts to close-ups, both face the stage and Heather is jumping up and down yelling, and Hollie is laughing. (01:39:05)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Hollie takes the stage she passes the huge photo of Mitch, beside the stage. When facing the opposite side of the ballroom from the stage, near the wet-bar on the left, there is another huge photo of a younger Mitch. Later, when the sprinklers go off, those two framed photos have actually switched places. Connie grabs the photo of Mitch which was originally near the stage and exits near the bar, and in the last shot of Ruckus playing to an empty ballroom, the other photo is beside the stage. (01:29:00 - 01:41:00)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Drew stands in front of the Lorraine Hotel holding the photograph, the way he grips it noticeably differs between shots. (01:47:10)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: After Drew reads Global Business Today during the road trip, there is a close-up of Claire as she writes "here is a river..." in the map, which cuts to a close-up of Drew holding the map. The handwriting differs in the close-ups. (01:45:45)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Visible crew/equipment: During the road trip in Memphis, there is a close-up of Drew wearing Elvis sunglasses, and the camera and reflector shield are reflected in the lenses. (01:46:35)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: In Kentucky, when Drew parks the car across the street from the Brown Hotel, in this nice clear close-up the rearview mirror is gone. It disappears in various other shots as well, such as when he pulls into the funeral home parking lot. (00:41:25)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: After just passing the Wichita sign during the road trip, there is a shot of Drew from the passenger side and both armrests are up, as he glances down at the urn. It cuts to a close-up of the urn and the armrest is down, but when it cuts back to Drew starting to pour his heart out, it is back up, and when it cuts back to the urn it's down again. These specific four shots are consecutive time-wise. (01:51:00)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Visible crew/equipment: While on the road trip, just before the close-up of Drew's fingers raising the CD volume for The Hombres, there is a shot facing the windshield as the car is moving and the shadow of the camera equipment mounted on the car is visible to the left of the hood, moving along with the car. (01:44:30)
28th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Drew reaches the "World's 2nd Largest Farmers Market" on the road trip, there is a shot of him walking up to the large entrance sign, with a small crowd walking around him. Then, a few shots later he's walking towards the entrance again, but now he's much farther away with an even greater crowd. (01:53:30)
27th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Drew is on the flight to Kentucky, there is an exterior shot of the airplane, which shows a massive jumbo jet, that accommodates hundreds of seats. In the interior shots of the airplane, there are 10-12 rows, totaling at most 72 seats in economy, and about 12 seats in first class, which makes for a very small airplane, similar to a Boeing 737-200. There is a very big difference in airplane size. (00:17:35 - 00:21:45)
27th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the airplane lands in Kentucky, Claire hands Drew the hotel coupon with her phone numbers written on the back, which he looks at as he walks through the terminal. When Drew phones Claire from his hotel room, he holds up the coupon and everything differs, even the cute dotted line around "don't miss 60B!!" is now a solid line. (00:23:00 - 00:43:50)
27th Apr 2006
Elizabethtown (2005)
Continuity mistake: On the way to Elizabethtown, when Drew pulls over and has a bit of a fit in the car, in the two exterior shots there is a fence that runs the length of the field on the car's right, and open field on the left. However, in the interior shots there is a fence on the car's left. (00:24:35)
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